One room for every craft on a set. Ask where the people who do that job will see you.
Budgets, contracts, festivals, delivery, the money side.
Latest: Day rate for a two day pickup, half or full?
Bodies, lenses, filters, rigs, what a frame costs in the end.
Latest: Camera rig that survives a documentary shoot?
Fixtures, gels, schemes, the first colours you put on a set.
Latest: Which CTO strength for tungsten practicals against a daylight window?
Booms, lavs, recorders, and the traffic outside the window.
Latest: Location dialogue keeps fighting traffic noise, lav or boom?
Production design, props, costume, makeup, the built world.
Latest: Ageing one costume across a three day time jump
Cutting rooms, grading, DIT, the workflow between them.
Latest: Two editors, one NAS, proxies that stay in sync
Script, storyboard, working with actors, the shape of a scene.
Latest: Storyboards for a 12 minute short, or a shot list and a floor plan?
Permits, venues, logistics, feeding a crew far from a city.
Latest: Feeding 18 people two hours from the nearest town
Everything that is not work. Meet the people you will work with.
Latest: Best on-set snacks?